George Jobs (Saint Zero)

We've hit the point where a lot of our dystopian sci fi now feels hopelessly optimistic

At any time one of these pathetic losers who just want to be liked could write a charity check so large they go down in history as the Real Santa Who Really Saved Christmas For Real, but they just won’t do it. Instead they’ll fund a Like Me Squad of goons who stand on your neck till you like them.

my read on it has always been that people who vote for third-party candidates in the US see voting as a consumer choice and view it as similar to going to the health food store to pick out the products they can't find at the supermarket chain, which is alas not at all how voting actually works here

a blender 3d render of a viewmaster-style scene with kermit and robin the frogs looking at a real frog.

ok ok last muppet render for now 🐸

A parody of the "America Runs On Dunkin'" logo that says "America Runs Around The World On Daftpunkin'"

I always think of daft puns when I'm having my coffee.

I'm seeing a lot of people claiming ICE has guided warheads. This seems to be based on a Substack newsletter which as best I can tell was referring to this contract. This contract is for distraction devices (sound grenades), but the PSC is for guided warheads

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If Gary Larson is back that means Bill Watterson is going to come back. Light is gonna reenter the world like when Gandalf showed up with new clothes.

Your honor, I’d like to plea “nuh-uh.”

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

Kendall Roy-ass behavior

Is this the positioning for the raid? Why aren’t the points marked with colors or numbers? Am I supposed to use CC? When do I pop my cooldowns?

I don't know when "I can code, so I can do anything" started, but it's a legitimate threat to civilisation and it needs to stop.

YouTube video by DeadKennedysVEVO Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (In Studio)

Truly classic songs always stay relevant.

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Still from The Good Place with the captions edited. Top half: Eleanor with her arms out, arguing, “I mean… When did Silent Hill become about feminism?” Bottom half: Chidi in front of a chalkboard for Ethics 101. A screenshot from Silent Hill 1 on the board. Screenshot is of the head cult lady proclaiming, “My daughter will be the mother of god.” Chidi argues back: “Silent Hill 1”

Thinking about the AI slop rejection letter, and remembering how back in the day sometimes you'd get an "interview", then it'd turn out to be a Cutco/Avon/Tupperware thing.

It is ridiculous how much energy & time is wasted on grifting the already-struggling.

This daft punk fortnight concert thing is just someone hit play on their Alive2007 album and animated a fake live show

I’m too old for this bullshit but kids need to get with it and play Chrono Trigger because they’ll meet a lovable medieval frog and be swept away by the orchestral magic of Yasunori Mitsuda instead of whatever the fuck this is

Hitting the trenches of karaoke night at the bar is good practice

a frame where the guy's eye is off-model

the eyeball placement of a trustworthy ally

Yes yes fb insta is a crime I’m old I know other olds on it that I care about forgiveness plz

Guess I gotta accept that I’m be terminally online. I see my grammatical crimes and I’m ok with it. Be ye hot or cold yk. That being said, quitting the clock app because I already went thru this with the bird app and thank god fb and insta algo is terrible feels healthier to put the phone down more.

I get Counting Crows, Adam always felt like a city boy wannabe two-stepper, but Bush?? They’re not even from this country!

Subtly downgrade a video game:

System Hiccup

To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note.

These men have made nothing other than money.

The inflection point for our dark reality was when Chris Pratt transitioned from affable schlub to jacked himbo.

We must re-schlubify the Pratt.

We got a public domain Pinocchio Dark Souls game so it only stands to reason that a public domain Winnie the Pooh one would also work and I just want to suggest the boss names Pontiff Piglet and Holy Blade Roo

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.